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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-15

Reduction OF ~ per cent. TWede on
our Custom Made Pants 90 order.
A. HEXrER a SON.
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Criminal Court-Du Bose, Judge.
John Mingo Jones, colored, was con-
victed yesterday on indict nents chsrg-
ing the poiso ming OF colorsd woman,
Isabella Carver, IN 1872, and received
sentence Of fifteen years imprison-
ment in the penitentiary.
The grand jury will make a report
this morning.
The court will adjourn today for the
term and will meet on Monday mex,
the opening Of the new term.
Circuit Court-Estes. Jadge.
The minutes will be signed this
morning and court will adjourn for
the term. The next term will open on
neKl Mon1ay.
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Re1ar With Pain

piMPLES, Blackheads, Skin Blemishes
stU and Baby Hun ors. use CUTICURA SOAP.
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UnIled Rlntea Cnurt

The SIX damage suits against the
Kansas City Railroad Com pany, for
enoroachiog upon property, were
called in the United States Court yes
terday, and were continued over to
next Monday with q view TO COM
piomiss.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

o. B. GALLOWAY 4 90.
Rates q 50 and 8 per day. according 70
sise and location Of room-Speoial
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REMEMBERS That the he presence q
EARLY, who are in charge of the drawings, Is
o guarantee Of absolute fairness and in te9ri-
ty, that The chances are all equal, and that
no ono can possibly divine what numbers
will draw prize. All parties therefore ad.
or holding out any other impossible induce
ments, are swindlers, and only aim to de-
oeiya and defraud the unWary.
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DOWN GO SUIT PRICES /!

The MISFIT CLOTHING PAR
LORS never carry stocks from one
season to another. To keep con-
tracts We have had to buy largely of
Suits. 1t hasn't been a particularly
brisk season for we retail clothiers,
and as we want to get rid OF all our
Suits before the first of spring, prices
have to drop. This makes bonanza
for buyers, and as it is cheaper to buy
fine custom made clothing at prices
much less than ordinary factory
work retails for, we expect to be ex-
ceedingly busy.
If you want to make money by
saving il; if you want clothing, and
want it good as we'll as cheap, your
place is at the
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Meteorological Report.
MshrHIs. TaNs., January u 1857.
Time. Bar. Their Wind We'tn.
700 am. 20 75ll H,O s. Clear.
800 pm. I29,77l SEQ S.W. IClo'dy
1000 pm 10 1851 1901 W. lOlear.
Maximum temperature, 3d.
Minimum temperature, SO.
Osone, 10 am, 0.
Rainfall, 900.
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TILE WEATHER.

For Alabama, Aisissippi and 7ennSSSee
WeSterly sci',ds; fair weather; slightly
colder.
For louisiana and Arkansas: north
sesieriy Vinds; fair sather; slightly
colder.
For 7erds: no-thuesteriy, shifting 10
lightly Vdrmer; souhsrly Dinds; tdir
t0edther.
The Ohio river will rise slightly; The
Other rivers will remain nearly stationary
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MarveIs in Overcoats |!

We are overstocked with Overcoats
We must reduce the overstoOk by
reducing the prices. This is the
only successful way. Then it is
slash and cut with prices. Our
difficulty is your opportunity. If
you want good Overcoats for very
little money take advantage Of the
slaughter in prices at the MISFIT'
CLOTHING PARLORS
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Bank Of Commerce

MEMPHIS, Tenn, January s, 1857.
"TTH view Of inoreasinr the capital
w stock Of this bank the Board OF Di-
rectors has { 10 day declsred a cash DiVi-
dend OF rhtrty.siVe 1851 per cent, nav.
J. a. oMDERa. Cashier,
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Gaat0n,a Hotel.

W. Fl. BINGHAM............M MANAGER.
European plan. Enlarged and rsfurnished.
Prices according 10 size and lOca-
finn NJ rnnma
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Dres ed TmrLa,n

Buy them Of Knk Allep 4 %
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FOUGHT AND LOST.

Two Lovers Arrange a Prize Fight for the
Hand of a Girl and Both Lose the Prize.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, April lS.-Pat Con-
norS and Zebulon Evans are stalwart min
ers residing at Olden, this Uuzerne) coun-
ty. In the village also resides a pretty,
buxom lass named Lucy Adams. Connors
and Evans were among her many admir-
efs: She could net agree as to which one
of the men she liked best; But Some of her
lady friends had it that She was inclined
to favor Evans suit At an5 Fate affairs
reached crisis last Saturday night, when
Evans went to d festival; where he found
Miss Adams. Connors also was present,
but Evans was the best man of the evening,
as he escorted the fair one to her home.
Connors was indignant. He claimed that
the rival was using unfair means to cut
him out, and at the advice Of friend he
sent challenge to Evans. The latter said
he was going to have the girl or die. A
prize fight was arranged for yesterday Both
men were IN training all the week. Yester-
day they met In an open Geld near Miss
Adams residence. Three rounds Ner5
fought when Connors knocked his adver-
sary out. The worsted mans seconds car
ried him from the field. When the young
lady heard of the affair she was very angry
and said she would have nothing to do with
such men. She woa,d discard them, and
she did, for clergyman residing in the
neighborhood, at the young woman's soli-
citation, went TO the homes Of the combat
Ants aud told them they need not show
their faces at the Adams residence In the
future
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
| THE debate in the British House of Com.
mons on the Irish Coercion bill created
considerable excitement on the 18th. Sex.
ton and Healy called Major Saunderson a
| liar.
THE Delaware Senate has passed the
| House bill prohibiting the manufacture and
| sale of all kinds of imitation and adulter-
ated butter.
II was stated at both the State and Navy
Departments that there was no truth in the
dispatch from Key West that Commodore
| Green, of the United States steamer Yam
tic, officially forbade the English men-of
war at Port Au Prince to carry out the
threat of Selling Tortugas Island. Secro-
.ary Whitney never heard Of such d thing
until he saw the dispatch III New York
paper.
THE Conservative members of the lower
house of the Prussian Diet have decided to
support the Ecclesiastical bill
The French have occupied Johanna
island, the principal of the COntoro group
in the Mozambique channel
MoNsIGNOR QUINN, Vicar General Of the
Catholic diocese of New York, died in Paris
on the 18th.
CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID CARTIER, Of the SUI
preme Court of the District Of Columbia,
died at Washington on the 10Th in the
seventy-fifth year of his age.
GENERAL BAZAINE, ex-Marshal of France,
who has for several years resided In exile
in Madrid, was attacked on the 18th by a
Frenchman, who, exclaiming, "J'ai avenge
ma patrie." plunged poniard into the side
of his head. Bazaine was dangerously
wounded. The assassin was arrested,
DR.. PARKER, of London, will deliver the
eulogy on Henry Ward Beecher in Brook
Ign, June "a, and will then lecture and
preach in several cities in the United
States.
THE second reading of the Irish trimes
bill passed the House of Commons on the
18th.
THE Khan of Bokhara recently discov-
cred that his ministers had been plotting
against him for encouraging the Russian
advance southwark contrary to his fathers
wishes and accordingly beheaded several
of them.
PETER J. EGAN, deputy recorder of
votes, St Louis, convicted of committing
election frauds by false registration, has
been sentenced to two years In the pehi-
tentiary by the United States District
Judge.
ALEXANDER MITCHELL, president of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
died at the Hoffman House, New York, On
the 9th, of disease of the heart,
The President has appointed Sig6ufhey
Butler, of Boston. to be Second Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury, in place of Judge May.
nard, promoted 20 the Assistant Secretary
ship of the Treasury.
The Paris Temps says the malady from
which the German Crown Prince is suffer-
ing Is cancer of the tongue.
THE conferences between the delegates of
the Austrian and Hungarian Governments
have resulted in a unanimous decision to
maintain the existing compromise.
PARwANA, the Afghan commander sent
by the Ameer of Afghanistan with force
of 1900 men to avenge the recent massacre
of Gholam Haider Khan, the Governor of
Maruf. by the Ghilzais, whose rebellion he
set out to suppress, was met and routed
south of Ghuzni by the rebels.
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a BOHEMIAN BUTCHER.
Jealous st. J6seph Bohemian Del,ber.
ateIy Murders His Wife.

ateIy Murders His Wife.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 49, For some
time past Peter Hronek, a Bohemian
laborer, living on Olive street, between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth, has been in
sanely jealous of his wife, and had on sew
eral occasions denounced her to the neigh
bors as criminally intimate with a neighbor
named Chovert. The pair lived in the base
ment of brick tenement, and Anthony
Augustine, the owner of the tenement. &C.
cupied the upper rooms. Sunday evening
while at a late supper Hronek entered
Augustine's room uncefemoniously and
called to his landlord you see that gun; %
displaying large pistol: swell, am go:
ing to make things howl with that to- nj glrt'i
and aimed the weapon at Augustine, but
Mrs. Augustine turned it away. Then by
her husbands orders, he being disabled by
q broken arm, she started for Bauman's
grocery to telephone the police:
When the woman had gone Eropak told
Augustine that he had bought the pistol 70
kill his wife and then left. Shortly after
Augustine heard a shot, followed almost
Immediately by another. He rushed down
stairs, but the door to Hronek's room was
bolted on the inside. Then came another
shot
The neighbors gathered. and from a rear
window the crowd saw the half nude body
OF the murdered woman, lying on the floor;
while stretched out at full length beside it
was the murderer, clothed only in his
undergarments, while the blood flow
ing from the woman's wounds had
GOV cred the floor. The blood sat
urated the garments of each and the
face, limbs and hands of each were dyed.
All this time Hronek was kissing his
wife. already dead, and calling her by en-
deafihg tianies: When the police arrived
about midnight the murderer was. smoking
q cigar and calmly rocking the baby, Willie
on the floor in pool of her own blood lay
the murdered woman. The wretch was ar
rested, after a struggle, and taken to Jail,
clad OILY in his underclothes.
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Wrecks In the Mediterranean.

LONDON, April 19.-The steamer ashore
off Bouifacio, Corsica, is the Tasmania.
The Tasmania belongs to the Peninsular &
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, 4,49a
tons, and was bound from Bombay for
Marseilles. She stranded on the Mon
achi rocks, 10 the south Of Corsica.
All the women and children among the
passengers have been landed. She car.
ried $50 passengers, of whom seventy four
nave landed. Two French steamers are
assisting in the work of the rescue. As
sistance has gone from Ajaccio and from
Marseilles.
The telegraph cable repairing steamer
Volta, foundered of the island Of Myconus
in the Grecian archipelago and q portion of
the crew were drowned.
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JUDGING from the programme just
published by the Berlin University of
the lectures for the coming summer
semester, that institution represents a
perfect tower of Babel. The following
are the languages to be taught: Latin,
Greek. French, English, Italian, Span
ish, Portuguese, Danish, Polish, Rus
sian. Hungarian, Slovenian, Sanskrit,
Syrian, Assyrian. Babylonian. Semetic,
Aram@an. Arabic, Turkish, Ethiopian
and Chinese. The new Oriental semi
nary, about to be created, is likely to
add some more languages to the fore
going list.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHER

THE coroner's jury at Providence, r. l.,
in the case of Haskins, the maniac wbe
was murdered IN the State Insane Asylum
by fellow inmate, returned a verdict hold
ing the General Assembly morally respOn-
sible by reason of its failure to provide ad-
equate room, necessltating the putting of
two inmates in one room for the night.
A COLLISION occurred recently on the Air
Line near Huntingburg, Ind, between a
construction and freight train by which
three men were killed and several wounded,
all laborcrs and train hands.
SIX more men arrested for completely in
the plot to assassinate the Car on the 49, b
of March. have been sentenced to death.
Other conspirators have been sentenced TO
imprisonment for life.
THE general assignment of George Clark,
the millionaire land owner and hop dealer
of Springfield, N. V, shows S2OO,OOO of I'M
satisfactory judgments outstanding. The
liabilities were estimated at 8, 100000.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has reaf-
firmed his former opinion that the Secre-
tary Of the Treasury does not possess the
power of remission in the case o. the Amer
lean schooner San Diego, seized for taking
seals at the Alaska islands IN violation of
law.
EXERCISES in honor of the memory of ex-
President Arthur were held in the Assem-
bly, Chamber at Albany, N. Y, on the 2lth.
GENERAL BoULANGER, the French Minis
ter Of War, has reduced his estimates for
the army by l5,00),0J0 francs.
THREE of the largest silver manufactur-
ing firms in New York City have notified
their men that all members of labor organi-
cations will be discharged.
CHARLES c. WELLER & SoN, clothiers,
Baltimore, Nd, have failed with $lO0,OOo
liabilities.
= LIEUTE:,ANT JOHN W. DANESHowER, the
Arctic explorer, shot and killed himself at
the Naval Academy, Annapolis. Nd, on the
2Oth. He mad mental trouble after he came
back from the Arctic region.
By an explosion on the steamer Delta at
Wilmington, N. c., the other day one man
was killed and several injured
ANTI-LIcENsE tickets were elected in
many small places in Illinois on the 18TH
Most OF the cities declared for license.
a RECENT special from Marquette,
Mich, says gang of seven men were
blasting at Murphy's camp, seven miles
from Crystal Falls, when terrible dynamite
explosion occurred, fearfully injuring Au-
gust Brash, John Good, William Horn
brook, Joseph Weisman and three others.
A SPECIAL from Kent, o., tells or a dia-
oolical attempt to kili Prof. Thomas San
ford, c. that place, with an internal ma
chine. A small box was left in the hallway
OF his residence Being suspicious, Prof
Sanford threw the box into the yard, when
an explosion occurred which shattered the
windows Of an adjacent house.
HERMAN LEVY, known theatrically as
Henry Leavitt. the informer in the Had
dock murder trial, has begun g. 90 libel
suit against the Chicago sHaR for calling
bin loafer. thief and confidence man.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21

AN Atlanta, Ca, special says:
"There is conflict of jurisdiction be-
tween the State and Federal courts in
Georgia. William NJ. Miller violated
the Prohibition law, was indicted and
on triad. when, by writ of habeas cor
pus. the case was transferred to the
Federal court. Judge Clark wrote a
letter to Governor Gordon, denouncing
the action of Judge Parlee as an in
fringement on State sovereignty, and
asked that the State take measures
against such encroachments. The
State will claim the jurisdiction of the
prisoner"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
COMMITTED BY GUPP.
An Ex-Conductor of the Panhandle Sent to
the jug.

PITTsBUGH, Fa., April 19.-De9uty Mayor
Gupp's Office, where the pre,iu mary hear
ings in the great railroad robbery cases
were to take place yesterday morning, was
crowded with friends of the prisoners and
curiosity seekers long before tea O'Clock,
the hour set for the hearing. The first case
called was J. L. Armstrong, ex-conduetor
on the Panhandle road. The prosecution
offered In evidence a valise which
1t was claimed belonged TO &C.
cused. 1t was found il d barber
shop where Armstrong had left it, and
was filed with goods which the counsel for
prosecution said had been identified as
part of the stolen property. The defend
ants counsel claimed that the evidence
was not sufficient to hold the prisoner, but
Deputy Mayor Gupp ruled differently and
committed Armstrong to Jail for trial at
court, fixing his bail at 5000. A large mum.
Der Of prisoners then waived hearing for
court and balance asked for postponemeut
until next Wednesday. The REQUEST was
granted and the hearing adjourned.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
COLORED FUNERALS.
Gorgeous Affairs That Are Paid For on the
Instal1ment Plan.

Instal1ment Plan.
One of the sights of Washington
is a colored funeral-a "blackberrying
party" as it has been Irreverently
called. These affairs are often on .
most gorgeous scale, and it is mys-
terry where the money comes from to
pay for the elaborate ceremonies at
the church, the costly coffin and fune-
raj drapery, and the long procession OF
carriages. This mystery is explained
by an insight into the organization OF
the numerous burial societies which
flourish among the colored people.
These societies generally rejoice in a
magniloquent title and rainbow re-
gala beside which Joseph's coat of
many cOlOrs would be a dull, aesthetic
garment of neutral tints. / have made
inquiries about one of these organize
tons, which are brotherhOods or sister,
hoods, or both, as the case may be, and
| find some interesting features in its
makeup. The idea is to guarantee
"good funeral to its members. There
is an initiation fee of 81 and annual
dues of small amount Then for
each death, the members are assessed
''fifty cents all round" or $1.75 if they
wish to ride in hack to the grave.
This is quite a tax on the poor SER
want girls and seamstresses who make
up the sisterhood, but it is one that is
willingly borne for the most part, as
each member expects to die some time,
and when that event occurs she wishes
to be buried in style. If a colored
woman becomes "offish' in this mat
ter, she becomes a target for the So
licitations and social pressure of her
circle of friends. She may urge that
she has no money to spare, and that,
for her part, she doesn't much care
what happens to her body after she is
dead. In such case the woman is Ia
bored with much in the strain in which
Ko-Ko persuaded Nanki-POo to UNDER
go martydom. He would have lots OF
fun for the month, and at the expira-
ton of that time he would be the CEN
tral-personage in great public cere-
monial, which would wind up with
fireworks and other festivities. ''You
won't see them," Ko-Ko observes,
meditatively, "but they'll be there all
the same" So the young colored per-
SON is urged to join the sisterhood on
the ground that she can have the fun
of going to all the funerals till her turn
comes, and then be assured that she
will be made the chief figure in gor-
geous ceremonial These arguments
are commonly effective, but if not, and
II the woman holds aloof, she rather
loses caste among her fellow church
members and other associates. Wash
ipgtop Cor. indianapolis Journal
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A Battle at the Cow Camp.

Fort WORTH, Tex, April 1S.-News has
reached Lere from Otto Creek, ]. T., that
great excitement prevails all through the
Kiowa reservation, and it is 'feared the
Kiowas may at any moment go on the war
path A regular pitched battle took place
at the cow camp of Greathouse Il Rush
Yesterday, started by the Indians running
through the camp, yelling and flourishlng
guns. The cowboys came out victorious,
with few serious wounds, but no fai ali
tues. The Indians in the Kiova reservation
have been constantly killing cattle, and a
few days ago were caught stealing cattle
by the cowboys, who undertook to capture
them, but the redskins made on with their
plumber
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21

ADvICEs from St Petersburg say the
Car has abandoned his projected visit
TO the Cossack capital, Novo Tcherkast,
owing to the discomfort and turbulence
prevailing among the Cossacks. Ac-
cording to the same advices a deputa-
ton of Cossacks recently visited St.
Petersburg for the purpose of having
an audience with the Gar. but were
compelled to return to their country
without having been received. Secret
agents and public officials among the
Don Cossacks report disaffection wide
spread. They say the country is over
run with revolutionary emissaries,
whose propaganda is welcomed by the
people.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21

WILLIAM HENNICK, a Baltimore tin
plate drummer, had himself arrested
at Washington recently for violation
Of the law imposing a license tax on
commercial agents. In the police court
he was fined $205, and on refusing to
pay the fine or offer bail was committed
10 the custody of the marshal for sixty
days. An application for a writ of
habeas corpus was Immediately pre-
sented to the court in general term,
and it was made returnable at once.
The purpose was to make this a test
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21

THE Consul of the United States at
Nicaragua has informed the Depal +
ment of State that the Congress of
Nicaragua has passed law ordering
that custom house duties shall be col
lected at the rate of fifty per cent. on
the value of the merchandise, that the
duty will be assessed as now on the
gross weight, but the tariff is to be re-
vised so that merchandise will pay fifty
per cent on the prime cost. This is to
take effect on August /, 1887.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21
Gamblers Raided.

Hor SPRINGS. Ark, April 1S-Saturdsy
night about ten O'Clock the sheriff and dep
uties made a raid on sIl the gambling dens
in the city. They found none IL oper.tion,
however. except one 'peco'' room .ur by
o gambler VINO appears to have out
little regard for law, There has been .
wsr betweenthe gamblers and officers of the
law more or less all the tine for the past
SIX months. Circuit Court Is in session
here. and it being reported that the
gambling houses we're in ropera.ios
Judge Wood issued papers ordering the
houses raided and al gambling impIc-
ments piled into the street and burned,
which they proceeded to do,
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-04-21

The capability of sea water as a pre-
sentative is shown by the fact that
among the articles recovered from YES
sells sunk in the harbor of Vigo, Spain,
in 1902, there have been recovered
specimens of logwood and mahogany
that, Notwithstanding their one hun
dred and eighty-four years. submer-
sion, are IN the most perfect state of
preservation. Dyers who have expert
mented with the logwood state that it
is even better for dying. purposes than
the wood now imported. The mahog-
any. too, is very fine and solid. one log
IL feet long and 22x32 inches square
being subsequently worked up in the
shape of furniture and walking sticks
ss mementoes,